blog.makezine.com - 11/18/2008
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This hack shows how to stuff a Nintendo Gameboy inside the housing of a TI-83 series calculator. We've seen the cool things these calculators can be hacked to do, but we haven't seen someone take it this far. Unfortunately, I think it would be more impressive if he got the TI-83's hardware ...
markbowers.org - 11/18/2008
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markbowers.org —
Now lets see if this thing still boots
in this condition... Which it, naturally does. But I
just had to be sure. So here's a shot of my TI-84 next to the GBC innards. Looks like this just might work. It's going to take a bit of wiring to map the ...
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GameBoy Color inside a TI-83 series calculator
ohgizmo.com - 11/18/2008
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ohgizmo.com —
By Andrew Liszewski I’m going to file this
one under ‘things I wish I’d thought of when
I was in high school.’ I can’t tell you how often I relied on a graphing calculator to get me through a boring class, whether it ...
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Game Boy Color Crammed Inside A TI-83 Calculator
gadgets.boingboing.net - 11/18/2008
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gadgets.boingboing.net —
ti_gameboy.jpg Some covert gamers spend all their time
programming Tetris clones for their graphing calculators. Others simply
rip out the guts of a GameBoy and cram it into their old TI-84s. It's the difference between programmers-in-the-making and ...
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GameBoy in a graphing calculator - Boing Boing Gadgets
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Hide a Gameboy inside a Ti-83 calculator
CrunchGear —
Tired of playing Drug Wars or a Mario remake on your ‘ol Ti-83 calculator? Just transplate a Gameboy inside a Ti-83 carcass and no one will be the wiser. All it takes is a little cutting and soldering to mod the screen and map the keypad but after that, your Kirby game’n will be hidden from curious eyes.
MarkBowers.org via MAKE
Gameboy Color Inside a TI-83 Series Calculator [DIY]
Gizmodo —
... Where, oh where were you, Nintendo Gameboy Color disguised as a Texas Instruments TI-83 Series calculator, when I was in school? Where? WHERE? Probably nowhere to be found, really, as Gameboy Colors weren't invented back then, and I was too busy trying to get off latin class to make out with girls in the backyard woods, anyway. But if you had existed back then, I would have been all over you too. That's how much I like you. [Make] ...
Gameboy Color Crammed Into Calculator
Ubergizmo —
... Just when you thought the Nintendo Gameboy Color has been relegated to the junk bin, along comes this DIY project that allows you to cram in the former's innards into a Texas Instruments TI-83 Series calculator - not too sure whether the cartridge, when slotted in, will give the game away, but boy do we wish that this was available back during our schooldays. ...
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